Text encoding issues in Azure DevOps

[batizar]

The text generated by task seems to have some encoding issues on my pipeline, any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks

[richard-nellist]

What is being displayed there is the control codes for colourised output from terraform. By default terraform produces colour output, but has a command line option not to colourise the output which is useful for automation pipelines.

If you add -no-color as a command option in the task, that will prevent terraform producing colour output making the output readable.

[charleszipp]

Thanks @richard-nellist for the suggested fix. Slating this for next release as it should be trivial fix if suggested fix resolves the issue.

[batizar]

Thanks @richard-nellist, that fixed the issue!

Thanks @charleszipp for great task, out runs a lot faster than what we used to use.

[favoretti]

@batizar I wonder what gives..

I see colors with no issues. Are you using YAML pipeline or a classic one?

[batizar]

@favoretti I'm using classic one!

[favoretti]

Ah, I see. It works well in YAML pipelines. Wonder if there's a way to detect which pipeline env we're in..

[bothzoli]

As far as I could tell it works correctly in Pipelines/Pipelines, but does not work correctly in Pipelines/Releases. Don't know if there's anything different in how these two render console output.

[darren-johnson]

I can confirm this just affects the Releases for me too. I've re-added -no-color to get round the issue until this is fixed.

[bothzoli]

see also this issue on the subject: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/issues/1569 especially this comment by the end: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/issues/1569#issuecomment-618505636

[jason-johnson]

Is there still an issue here?

[jason-johnson]

This is not an issue with this extension but is an issue in azure devops itself (see here). Closing.